AP Lit & Comp 9/6 9/7 17 1. Reading check 2. Ode to Science TPCASST 3. Discuss Ode to Science 4. For next class
Grab a half sheet of paper. If you missed class today, you ll need to come in and make this up ASAP (within a few days.)
TPCASTT Title look at both initial thoughts on meaning and then any new meaning after reading the poem. Mark the poem thoroughly for deeper meaning. CONNOTATION, so things like: personification, metaphor, simile, alliteration, allusion, etc. How do these devices give the poem (or those specific lines) deeper meaning? Bracket off to the side and paraphrase. What s the attitude of the poem, and how do you know? (TONE) Where is the shift or shift(s) in the poem? What about theme? (overall meaning) How might the poem relate to Brave New World and the idea of dystopias?
Here s some context for Poe s sonnet Written when the Industrial Revolution was starting to make its way over from Europe and was really beginning to affect life in the eastern United States. We will learn a great deal more about sonnets another day, but for right now, note that this poem has 14 lines. Even though it s printed like one giant stanza, it can actually be divided into three quatrains and a heroic couplet. Quatrain = four lines Heroic couplet = concluding two lines The rhyme scheme alternates every other line (This is the standard MO for an English sonnet.)
Poe s Ode to Science T initial title Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! (A) Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. (B) Why preyest thou thus upon the poet s heart, (A) Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? (B) How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, (C) Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering (D) To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, (C) Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? (D) Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car, (E) And driven the Hamadryad from the wood (F) To seek a shelter in some happier star? (E) Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, (F) The Elfin from the green grass, and from me (G) The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? (G) WITH A PARTNER, COMPLETE A TPCASTT FOR THIS POEM DISCUSS AS A CLASS meaning P paraphrase literal C connotation (deeper meanings) A attitude (speaker s tone) S - shifts T reevaluate title T theme (poem s overall meaning
Ode to Science TPCASTT with a partner Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! (A) Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. (B) Why preyest thou thus upon the poet s heart, (A) Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? (B) How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise, (C) Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering (D) To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, (C) Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? (D) Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car, (E) And driven the Hamadryad from the wood (F) To seek a shelter in some happier star? (E) Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, (F) The Elfin from the green grass, and from me (G) The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? (G)
Points to consider Paraphrase = come up and write down your paraphrase for one of the poem s three quatrains (or, for its closing couplet.) Now, others come up and write down what you believe the connotation (deeper meaning) is for sections of the poem. Let s identify attitude. Use your tone sheet. Now SHIFT is there a shift? Where is it, and what does it do for the poem s overall meaning? New understanding of the title? How about THEME? What s this poem s deeper meaning? Why write it? For what purpose?
Is Poe right about science? Does science have the potential to ruin or destroy our humanity? If someone looks at life exclusively through a scientific lens, is he/she missing something? What? In the last section of BNW, Mustapha Mond will vehemently (and somewhat convincingly) argue that scientific progress trumps art, religion, creativity, even happiness.
Discussion questions Write out 3-5 amazingly stellar discussion questions that focus on some holistic aspect of the text so far. (holistic = overall aspects of the book or chapters) We will use these for a Socratic seminar next class.
For next class Be finished reading BNW by Tues 9/12 (M) / Weds 9/13 (G). Have your discussion questions with you for discussion circles next class. Remember to complete blog post #2 by this Monday night 9/11. Complete a TPCASTT for Advice to a Prophet by the start of class 9/12 (M) / 9/13 (G).
Advice to a Prophet Take a few minutes to begin your readings of this poem. Begin annotation for TPCASTT. Here s the poem.